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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.
(b) It enlivened everyone.
(c) It made ladies cry.
(d) She does not mention Tash's music.

2. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) She would be horrified to go to such a place.
(b) For some peace and quiet.
(c) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(d) To show solidarity with Tash.

3. Where does Tash spend a few weeks?
(a) Rikers Island.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Attica.
(d) Staten Island.

4. What is the news about Tash?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He has been given another year for bad behavior.
(c) He is being moved to another prison.
(d) He is getting out of jail.

5. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(b) She does not feel well.
(c) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.
(d) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.

6. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?
(a) A man who will tolerate them.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Her Big Purpose.

7. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(b) If Tash was home yet.
(c) If they would like to roam with her.
(d) If D can come over for dinner.

8. Where do the girls walk?
(a) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(b) To an ice cream store.
(c) To a large amphitheater in the park.
(d) To the basement where the party is going on.

9. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) Any weight.
(b) His depressed shuffling.
(c) His swagger or energy.
(d) His stutter.

10. What do Sly and his friend testify?
(a) That Tash is the one who kills Randall.
(b) That Tash has nothing to do with the robbery.
(c) That Tash was the only one in on the robbery.
(d) That Tash was in on the robbery.

11. What does Neeka want to attain?
(a) Tupac's level of fame.
(b) Enough money to hire a babysitter for her brothers.
(c) A published book.
(d) She has no idea.

12. Where does D tell them they are going?
(a) D decides they should just stay in after dinner.
(b) No where.
(c) Back to her house after dinner.
(d) She does not tell them.

13. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?
(a) Dancing with a very handsome young man.
(b) Singing for the party guests.
(c) Snorting cocaine.
(d) Standing on the stage in the amphitheater.

14. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.
(c) A large, picnic-style lunch.
(d) The prison food.

15. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They should leave the United States.
(b) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(c) They are hunted.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?

2. What does the narrator say about D's mother?

3. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?

4. What do Tash's visitors have to go through?

5. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?

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